Kremlin's new "coalition of the willing" at UN

16 December 2005
Vladimir Socor
Source Eurasia Daily Monitor

Uganda, Angola, Mali, Myanmar, and Venezuela have joined Armenia, France, and Spain in a Russian-led effort to deny the GUAM countries the right to bring their concerns before the United Nations General Assembly.

On December 13, in the Assembly's agenda-setting General Committee, the aforementioned countries rejected an initiative by Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova to introduce an item on "Unresolved Conflicts in the Black Sea-South Caucasus Region and their Implications for International Peace, Security and Development" on the General Assembly's agenda. With most other countries abstaining or not voting, only the United States and Britain spoke in favor of the GUAM group's initiative.
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This combination of countries prevailed, and the General Committee killed the GUAM proposal.

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